On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, mizusumashi > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I hava a question about caching and sever's overload. My colleague said >> that local wiki's MediaWiki namescape pages may make less overload of >> it's server, because these messages chaced and default messages are read >> from files. >> >> I think, default messages are in PHP code files and these PHP codes may >> be compiled and cached between apache is alive. In other hand, messages >> saved in local Wiki are in DB, and they are got from DB server by all >> page requests. > > Messages are almost never retrieved from either the DB or from files. > They're normally retrieved from memcached, regardless of where they > originate. As far as I know, there should therefore be no difference > at all between whether the messages come from files or from BetaWiki. > > It's good policy to blank messages that are the same as the default, > but only so that your wiki will get any updates or improvements to the > defaults automatically. (IIRC, a blank message is treated as > nonexistent, and it preserves the history publicly, so this is likely > preferable to deletion.) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
When blanking, it would depend on the situation. Some things explicitly check for wfEmptyMsg(), some check for voiding by '-'. Deleting it merely makes you fall back to the lang files (and also getting updates), whatever the default may be. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
